My reasons are complicated and probably sound loony to you, but I'm sure I would find ways to get distracted by the web on the kindle (hey, look at me, I'm responding to you 10 minutes after you posted on a dead thread). Moreover, I want hardware that just can't possibly fall prey to practices like having books removed from it by Amazon or having my reading habits reported to Amazon. The only way to ensure that thing is with free software and/or no internet hardware.

I've been looking for a long time for an e-reader that I like. My ideal music player has been a Sansa Clip+ with Rockbox installed on it. Cheap, featureful, runs a free OS. I have a large collection of mathematical pdfs I'd like to read, but I have not found the device to read them on.

For what I want, printed copies are still hard to beat.